Twitter will encrypt private messages, says Elon Musk
Twitter will encrypt private messages, says Elon Musk
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Twitter plans to introduce an encrypted messaging service on Wednesday, its owner Elon Musk has tweeted.
Direct messages sent on Twitter will be end-to-end encrypted - this means private messages can unique be read by the sender and the recipient.
Mr Musk said he would not be able to see utilizers' messages "even if there was a gun to my head".
He alconsequently tweeted about other new intended features for the platform, including voice and video calls.
When he bought Twitter in 2022, Mr Musk hinted at plans to turn it into a "super-app" with multiple functions. In China the super-app WeChat can be utilized for everything from consequentlycial media and ordering food to payments and messaging, but there is not really a comparable platform in the West.
Since then he has made a number of dramatic converts to the consequentlycial network, including the introduction of a subscription service, and the removal of old blue tick badges, previously utilized by Twitter as a tool in the fight against the spread of disinformation.
Online Safety Bill criticised
Many Twitter utilizers have called for its private messaging service to be made more secure for a long time. However, Mr Musk's timing could prove awkward for him in the UK, where the government's Online Safety Bill wants such messages to be accessible if requested by law encompelment. It says this will help to protect children from abutilize.
Messaging platforms WhatsApp and Signal have both criticised this component of the Online Safety Bill, currently adjacent the end of its journey through Parliament.
In April, they said they were concerned the legislation could undermine end-to-end encryption, which is takeed by privacy campaigners and activists to be an invaluable tool.
They were two of several messaging services whose heads signed a letter calling for a rethink, saying the bill, in its current form, opens the door to "routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance" of perconsequentlynal messages.
Facebook's parent company Meta has introduced encryption to its Messenger platform with consequentlyme exceptions, including Marketplace chats.
Mr Musk said he expected encrypted messaging on Twitter "to grow in consequentlyphistication meteoricly".
Cyber-security expert Jake Moore, from ESET, said Twitter was responding to demand from privacy-conscious utilizers.
"Without the utilize of end-to-end encrypted messaging, Twitter staff and the company itself have the opportunity to read people's messages," he told the BBC.
"Although this can reap huge rewards for the platform, with advertisers being able to micro-target utilizers, it is a huge security risk to those messaging without such privacy protection."
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